U+1040E "𐐎" Deseret Capital Letter Wu Unicode Character

U+1040E "𐐎" Deseret Capital Letter Wu is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system created in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to simplify English spelling and promote literacy. This specific character represents the consonant sound "w" as in "wish" and was used in the uppercase form for proper nouns and the beginning of sentences. The Deseret alphabet never gained widespread adoption, but the capital letter Wu was later included in the Unicode Standard as part of the Deseret block, allowing for digital representation of historical texts and scholarly work related to Mormon pioneer history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1040E
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Capital Letter Wu
Block	Deseret
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐎
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC0E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001040E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc0e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"𐐶" U+10436 Deseret Small Letter Wu
Lowercase Code Point	"𐐶" U+10436 Deseret Small Letter Wu
Simple Case Folding	"𐐶" U+10436 Deseret Small Letter Wu
Case Folding	"𐐶" U+10436 Deseret Small Letter Wu
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐐶" U+10436 Deseret Small Letter Wu
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐐶" U+10436 Deseret Small Letter Wu
Script	Deseret
Script Extensions	Deseret
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper